Am I the only fool who has been perfectly happy enough to live without need of flash for the last 10 years

Flash is a nasty, horribly misused application. I avoided it for a long time, but now I use it strictly for Google Streetview (which can be handy when traveling to unfamiliar terrain on vacation or even within your own city). Ok, and I occasionally watch music vids on youtube.

Am I the only fool who has been perfectly happy enough to live without need of flash for the last 10 years :-P

No sites that I frequent require the use of flash. But lately friends who use windows send me links to youtube, so i installed py-clive to handle that.

I've been using Opera since version 5 on BSD exculsively.

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Am I the only fool who has been perfectly happy enough to live without need of flash for the last 10 years :-P

Maybe
First page at my ISP is Flash.
So I either have to grap a Windows machine or I can't for support or billing info.
Note that, tech supports goes no futher than asking you to run winipcfg or guide you clicking through the connection icon.
But, with my subscription I am entitled to 1/2 day of "free" Intermet hands-on.
I was happy.
Also happy to get my Windows installation CDROM. Need it to correct the level of my terraxe wooden tiles.

Flash is also a practical necessity if one wishes to keep up with the current US presidential campaign. Much of the rhetoric, pointy elbows, slime and (yes!) interesting stuff comes out as flash videos. You can see the memes developing from the original incidents. I grant that not everyone is a junkie of political campaigns like I am, but if you are, you need Flash.

Flash is also a practical necessity if one wishes to keep up with the current US presidential campaign. Much of the rhetoric, pointy elbows, slime and (yes!) interesting stuff comes out as flash videos. You can see the memes developing from the original incidents. I grant that not everyone is a junkie of political campaigns like I am, but if you are, you need Flash.

Or, if you're like me, you can do it the old fashioned way via newspapers and TV. (isn't it sad that TV is becoming old fashioned )

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Or, if you're like me, you can do it the old fashioned way via newspapers and TV.

IMHO, you can't really do it this way, unless you read a dozen or so well-chosen papers and spend way too much time on TV. That is, if you wish to have anything more than a cursory understanding of how event have developed.

That said, I do read five papers a day and a couple of weeklies (like the Economist). I don't have much use for television and their terrible reporting (with a very few exceptions).